dowdz said:
My question is..where the hell do these other clubs have all this extra money?
Are we the only club with a salary cap?
like I said no other club has two halves who together earn over a $1M and that is what it will take to sign both.
The salary cap next year is $5M - that amount has to include the match fees. $2000 per match x 17 players + Incentive bonus payments aprox $900k
All the high paid player’s have indexing clauses in their clauses and so most of the $700k increase will be absorbed by those players.
Even allowing for back ending the impending new contracts for Foran and Cherry-Evans they will still attract $500k each for 2013. So then try to fit the next 23 highest paid players in at $3.1M.
Glenn Stewart, Watmough, Lyons & TRex will cost at least $1.4m. That leaves $1.7M for 19 players.
It doesnt add up to any thing different on anyone's calculator.